Head of Digital Services (FinTech | SaaS)

About audax

audax means courage. To have the courage to change the banking scene, eliminating constraints caused by existing legacy infrastructure. Our mission is to empower banks and financial institutions to scale and modernise at speed, reaching new customers without breaking the bank.

We began our journey supplying services to and powering Standard Chartered’s white-label plug and play Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution, Standard Chartered nexus, through our technology capabilities. At audax, we seek go-getters who are hungry for growth and can bring fresh perspectives.

Website: https://www.audax.io

What you will be doing:

Audax is looking for a Head of Digital Services to lead the design, development, and delivery of digital services for domain verticals viz. IAM, origination, party management, and customer communications. This role requires a strong technical leader who can drive engineering strategy, oversee multiple domain teams, and ensure system scalability, security, and reliability. You will work closely with the CPTO, product owners, and cross-functional engineering squads to build and optimize product.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in microservices, distributed systems, IAM security, and cloud-native technologies. In addition to technical excellence, you will play a key role in mentoring engineers, promoting engineering culture, and driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Driving robust, scalable architectural decisions that align with long-term strategy.
• Ensuring solutions align with and support the organization’s strategic product/technical roadmap.
• Champion code quality, implementing best practices, security standards, reducing defects and technical debt.
• Leading high-impact projects that significantly contribute to business outcomes.
• Ensuring systems operate efficiently under peak loads and are scalable for growth.
• Optimizing resources and infrastructure to reduce operational costs without compromising quality.
• Sharing expertise through documentation, workshops, or tech talks to uplift the entire engineering organization.
• Setting the standard for technical excellence and cultivating a culture of best practices across the team.
• Collaborating effectively with product managers, QA, design, and other stakeholders to drive consensus and alignment.
• Leading negotiations and discussions to reach mutually beneficial agreements on technical decisions.
• Representing engineering perspectives in strategic forums and championing technical excellence at an organizational level.
• Delivering projects within agreed timelines while maintaining quality and scope.
• Lead and mentor multiple engineering managers and teams, providing technical guidance and driving engineering excellence.
• Own and drive the technical roadmap, aligning engineering initiatives with product roadmap.
• Architect and build cloud-native, microservices-based solutions on Kubernetes, ensuring seamless integration with modern DevSecOps practices.
• Identify and mitigate technical debt, ensuring systems are future-proof and optimized for performance.
• Lead by example, support teams in solving complex technical challenges.

What you need to be successful in this role:

• More than 12 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on cloud-native architectures.
• Expertise in Java Spring Boot, microservices, REST, GRPC, and distributed systems.
• Provide hands-on expertise in IAM, including OAuth2, OIDC, MFA, and API security, with working knowledge of Keycloak as an advantage.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, API gateways (Kong), SQL/NoSQL databases, and event-driven architectures.
• Cloud-Native Development: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Data & Storage: SQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• DevOps & Automation: CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes Operators.
• Scalability & Performance: Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture.
• Ability to evaluate and implement open-source technologies to accelerate innovation.